Freedom and liberty are the foundation of America. This love of freedom requires that freedom for others be just as important as freedom for you. Today this commitment to freedom is being superceded by a constant government expansion that will leave all of us subservient to the power of bureaucrats.

Thursday, April 03, 2008

In a surprise development on the day Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum’s court-martial was scheduled to begin, all charges against him were dropped without explanation.

Tatum, facing charges of reckless endangerment and aggravated assault that could have sent him to prison for 18 years, was the fifth Marine — and the second of three enlisted men — to be exonerated, leaving only one enlisted Marine still facing court-martial.

Tatum’s exoneration should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the real facts in the case.

Does anyone think that if Barack Obama was President these Marines would be allowed to prove their innocence? Obama is a pacifist and he considers our military to be his enemy, not the defenders of our freedoms.

It is bad enough that George W. Bush will not stand up to the press and denounce the press' kangaroo court tactics. If Barack Obama was President he would be treating these soldiers the way Mike Nifong treated the duke Lacrosse players.